"Thief" by Romana Iorga

Thief

This morning
I steal away
a moment.
I hold it tight

in my palm,
as it stretches
its limbs

into my flesh —
a sleepy rabbit.
I watch it
skip across

the threshold
into fresh snow,
leave no marks on the page,

except
for the shadow
of a slightly
smaller
truth.

Romana iorga

Originally from Chisinau, Moldova, Romana Iorga lives in Switzerland. She is the author of two poetry collections in Romanian. Her work in English has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Lunch Ticket, Cordite Poetry Review, Poetry South, American Literary Review, Harpur Palate, PANK, and others, as well as on her poetry blog at clayandbranches.com.

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